Weekender’s latest hits

Choice nuggets from tomorrow’s section, plus related items. Remember, you can find the entire articles online now if you’re not into delayed gratification.

Music

Band name of the week: Punk in Drublic, playing Wednesday at Rock Bottom Tattoo Bar. As Jim Beal Jr. notes in Night After Night, band names don’t get much better. Other contenders — Liberal (now that’s a scary name), White Rabbit, Friday; Common Law Catfish (which has really unpleasant implications), Blue Bubble Ballroom, Sunday.

Suggested band name of the week: Complimentary Nude Ringtone. Inspired by the site where I looked up the lyrics to Radiohead’s new “In Rainbows” album; each file offers a free ringtone of the song whose lyrics you’re reading. Since they have a song called “Nude” …

Quote: “What do you expect when the average age of your starting pitchers is 65?” — Branford Marsalis, on the New York Mets’ failure to make the playoffs. His quartet plays Laurie Auditorium on Saturday.

Events/misc.

A vote for “Twelve Angry Men”: Starring Richard Thomas, the touring version of the Broadway show that’s at the Majestic through Sunday gets a ringing endorsement from staff writer Deborah Martin. The jury-room drama features what she calls “fully-realized peformances” by Thomas and Kevin Dobson. Best of all, as far as I can tell, it contains not a single ABBA tune.

Speaking of which … Staff writer and former Weekender Calendar Editor Jessica Belasco, who attended the show with Deborah, devised a plan to remedy that. I mean, the lack of music, not the lack of ABBA music. She envisioned “Twelve Angry Men” reworked into a rousing, feelgood musical called “Angry!” Taking a page from Debbie Reynolds singing “Good Morning” in ‘Singin’ in the Rain,” her jurors would come out singing, “We’re angry, we’re angry! And there’s 12 of us, too/We’re angry, we’re angry! How ’bout you?”

OK, ABBA: Top that!

Quote: “I would never read overtime just because one person asks for something. You tell yourself, ‘Oh, they love me.’ But that’s just one drunk person. The other ones have baby sitters. They just want to go home.” — David Sedaris, on why he doesn’t do encores, like a rock band. He’s at the Majestic on Monday.